ORLANDO-Locally-based Upsala Florida Corp. is asking $23.2 million for the combined 53.4 acres but the dirt may be bought separately. The commercially-zoned locations could house the area's next new tourist hotel or timeshare property.

ORLANDO-The neotraditionally-designed community in east Orange County is set to launch a $15 million construction program in first quarter 2001 that will include a 100,000-sf town center; 70 apartments; 78 luxury townhomes; a community center; and a new Lutheran Church.

ORLANDO-Developer David A. Siegel says the 24-year-old, six-acre dirt at his Mystery Fun House on Major Boulevard, across the road from the front door of Universal Orlando, is becoming too valuable to keep as a second-tier attraction. The parcel has been appraised at $550,000 per acre or $12.63 per sf.

ORLANDO-L.M. Sandler and Sons Inc. of Virginia Beach, Va. and its Miami affiliate, SouthStar Development Partners Inc. paid Debra Inc. $115,384 per acre or $2.65 per sf for the prime site in the city's southwest submarket, next to Universal Florida Studios.

ORLANDO-The clock is ticking on the fate of a crucial construction project at Orlando International Airport that will eventually affect about 100 retailers, vendors and other commercial ventures there.

ORLANDO-Locally-based World Commerce Online Inc. is getting additional financial support from its original venture capital backer, Interprise Technology Partners of Miami. Interprise previously gave World Commerce $28 million.

ORLANDO-Gov. Jeb Bush is unhappy the state is paying a Lakeland, FL landowner $4.7 million or $53,409 per acre ($1.23 per sf) for the 88-acre hideaway in Lake Tohopekaliga. The Osceola County site is 35 miles south of Downtown and 10 miles from Walt Disney World. Bush, a former developer, thinks the price is too high.

ORLANDO-This tourist destination is adopting a 20-year housing/business blueprint package in an effort to enter first-tier commercial markets some day as a 24-hour-seven-day-a-week city.